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5 Things You Should Know About Hunger

Raising rice is one way to help, but telling your friends and family about the problem, and raising awareness is also very important if we are to achieve broad-reaching and long term solutions. Here are 5 facts about hunger that you and absolutely everyone should know:

3. While the number of hungry people has risen, as a percentage of the world population, hunger has actually fallen from 33 per cent of the population in 1969 to just over 15 per cent of the population in 2010.

4. Well over half of the world’s hungry people–some 578 million people–live in Asia and the Pacific region. Africa accounts for just over one quarter of the world’s hungry population.

5. Hunger is number one on the list of the world’s top 10 health risks. It kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

Found out about this awhile ago, but just started today. Already have over 1,500 grains in about half an hour! This is such a great organization, an so simple. I've started planning a project to raise awareness about it. LOVE LOVE LOVE :)

My Library has a ummer reading prgram for older kids and part of it is a game card. There are many different activities on this card and one is donate 4,000 grains of rice to the hungry using freerice.com and I think it was an amazing idea that will help kids realize that there are other kids going hungry.

I just discovered freerice.com a few days ago, and i can't wait to help. i posted a link to the website on facebook and talked about it, and already some of my friends have played! i don't see this as a one time thing though (play the game once and be done with it)...i am going to make sure to play every single day, because the thought of my rice being given to hungry people...i feel like i am making a difference.

I would like to say that freerice.com is a very good thing that started because many people might not have to go and give people food and this a very good way that everyone can help out by just even giving 100 to 200 everyday.

This is great stuff! I am going to repost this and spread the word! Plus, FreeRice.com is such an amazing website, the work that has been done with assistance from here is so great! Keep it up everyone who is involved in changing this world to be a better place!

if we can stop world hunger than there is nothing we cant do eventually we can cause world peace and make the world a better place one step at a time join Christians Fighting World Hunger and we can do this to gether